Quotes of: Snatched Keyword

Pat Sr.: Here we are again at the one yard line. DeSean, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. There you go.

Silver Linings Playbook

General Grievous: That wasn't much of a rescue. [snatches two lightsabers out of a droid's hands] Battle Droid: You're welcome.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Willy Wonka: [as Violet snatches the gum from his hand] Oh! I wouldn't do that. I really wouldn't.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Man is able to snatch everything except one thing, the last of human freedoms: the choice of an attitude under any given set of circumstances to determine his own path.

Viktor E. Frankl

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were a...

Winesburg, Ohio

When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful.

Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

Faust: Der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil. Urfaust

The witch knew who had killed her and she snatched pieces of time, here and there, from the business of dying, to make her revenge.

Magic for Beginners

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Like lightning she snatched her axe, and struck him on the neck - deep - once - twice - his life-blood gushed out, staining her feet. The stars touched midnight.

The Were-Wolf

I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more.

Steve McFadden

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens...

Nathan Myhrvold

The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.

Stephen Kinzer

Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave; Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen, Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.

Fanny Crosby

Michael: [after Mr. Dawes Sr. snatches his tuppence away; screaming] GIVE IT BACK! [Michael launches himself forward to get his tuppence back, sparking chaos]

Mary Poppins

Woody: Hey, who's got my hat? Mr. Shark: Look, I'm Woody! Howdy, howdy, howdy! Woody: Ha-ha, ha-ha... [snatches his hat away] Woody: Gimme that!

Toy Story

It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nigh...

Kareena Kapoor Khan

Batty: [Deckard is hanging precariously by one hand off a girder atop a high-rise; his hand slips, but Batty snatches him by the wrist as he falls] Ah, kinship!

Blade Runner

The Bride: I was wondering, just between us girls, what did you say to Pai Mei for him to snatch out your eye? Elle Driver: [flashback showing Pai Mei snatching out Elle's eye] I called him a miserable old fool. The Bride: Ooh, bad idea. Elle Driver:...

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

June Carter: [Sees John eating peanuts] Can I have one? Johnny Cash: Yeah. [Takes a peanut out of the bag and holds it above June's mouth] Johnny Cash: Open your mouth... June Carter: [June opens her mouth, but John snatches it away and eats it] June...

Walk the Line

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laug...

Robert Webb